It's the most hyped device of the moment, a device that nobody has laid eyes on without an NDA death-grip. While rumour and speculation escalate (sometimes giving way to apathy), little has leaked out of Cupertino. But nobody seems to be asking whether this tablet thing will be successful or not.

...can we possibly knock a product on price when we have no idea what the product is or what it can do, much less even know how much it will cost?.

It cuts both ways. How can there be so much excitement about the product when we have no idea what the product is or what it can do?

Far more column inches have been devoted to frenzied speculation about hardware specs than assessing whether any tablet is what people will pay for. I'm excited too, which is why I feel the need to write about it, but I don't see any harm in redressing the balance a little.

Apple has a long history of getting the price wrong, so I'm just saying don't expect a revolution until we see the price tag. I want them to price it aggressively.

I agree completely: if we can fawn over how incredibly shiny the Apple logo on the back is going to be, we can point out that, for most people to buy it, it probably needs to cost less than $200 (at least, that's what it'd take for me, given the very limited use I'd actually have for such a device).

"...can we possibly knock a product on price when we have no idea what the product is or what it can do, much less even know how much it will cost?.

It cuts both ways. How can there be so much excitement about the product when we have no idea what the product is or what it can do?

Far more column inches have been devoted to frenzied speculation about hardware specs than assessing whether any tablet is what people will pay for. I'm excited too, which is why I feel the need to write about it, but I don't see any harm in redressing the balance a little.

Apple has a long history of getting the price wrong, so I'm just saying don't expect a revolution until we see the price tag. I want them to price it aggressively. "

So based on knowing nothing about what this product is, we write diatribes about how disappointed we will be when Apple fails to price it right.